Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/5727
Title: Exploiting Bus Level and Bit Level Inactivity for Preventing Wire Degradation Due To Electromigration
Authors: Kayaalp, Mehmet
Koç, F.
Ergin, Oğuz
Keywords: Electromigration
Fault Tolerant Systems
Integrated Circuit Interconnections
Integrated Circuit Reliability
Source: 15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2012, 5 September 2012 through 8 September 2012, Cesme, Izmir, 95173
Abstract: Today, designing reliable superscalar microprocessors is more complex and challenging than it has always been. Increasing current densities over interconnecting wires, whose dimensions are continuously scaling down, has been an important research problem. Performance and power efficiency concerns also lead to more complex structures. The complexity and the wire densities of the blocks in smaller areas make them more prone to failures and malfunctions caused by the "electromigration" problem. Most contemporary processors employ wide pipelines that are able to execute multiple instructions each cycle. Because of some limiting factors such as the dependencies and input/output latencies, pipelines are rarely used up to their full capacity, which causes some ports to be used more and worn out earlier. This paper proposes a method to help preventing chips against the corruptive effect of electromigration by distributing the utilization evenly between ports. Furthermore, in data holding structures like register files, bit level inactivity is exploited to provide further reliability improvements. This is accomplished by changing the flux density on wires through exchanging the positions of significant bits of values and changing the widths of bit line wires according to their level of usage. © 2012 IEEE.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2012.56
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/5727
ISBN: 9780769547985
Appears in Collections:Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü / Department of Computer Engineering
Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection

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